EP1442279A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur zuordnung der kennzeichnung von objekttragern fur mikrotomierte gewebeproben sowie zur vorbereitung einer solchen kennzeichnung - Google Patents
Verfahren und vorrichtung zur zuordnung der kennzeichnung von objekttragern fur mikrotomierte gewebeproben sowie zur vorbereitung einer solchen kennzeichnungInfo
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- the invention relates to a method for assigning the identification of specimen slides for microtomized tissue samples still to be applied to them, in association with identification information that is assigned to a carrier of an associated, not yet microtomized tissue sample.
- the invention further relates to a device for carrying out such a method and a device for preparing to carry out such a method with a labeling of specimen slides for microtomized tissue samples in association with identification information which is assigned to a carrier of a not yet microtomized tissue sample, the carrier with an information carrier is equipped for the assignment, and the device has a device for generating the identification information.
- tissue samples from patients are examined in routine operation.
- the most widespread method is to subject the tissue samples to paraffin embedding, then to cut them with microtomes, to stain them in a further process, to cover them with a cover slip and to feed them to a microscope for diagnostic evaluation.
- these patient samples are processed automatically in the individual steps.
- the sample is embedded in the steps of fixation, dewatering, clearing with intermediate medium and embedding in paraffin in an automatic embedding machine.
- the next step, the production of a paraffin block is carried out on a pouring station.
- the production of microscopic thin sections is done by cutting the paraffin reached with the embedded tissue sample on a microtome.
- the staining and contrasting of the thin section obtained is carried out in several steps in an automatic dyeing machine. After covering the thin section with a cover slip on a cover slip automatic coverslipper, the thin section resulting from the patient sample is ready for evaluation under a microscope.
- tissue samples are clearly identifiable through all process steps, to avoid confusion and to avoid sample losses.
- tissue cassette immediately after being cut and closed and secured with a lid.
- advanced tissue cassettes also offer distinctive features to secure the sample against loss and for unambiguous identification.
- advanced cassettes have an inscribable or printable area of sufficient size and surface quality, which enables the inscription or printing with sufficient adhesion and durability during the following processes. In this way, the sample remains clearly identifiable in the labeled cassette during tissue embedding.
- microscopic thin sections are made from the tissue sample on a microtome.
- the paraffin block with embedded tissue sample and connected cassette carrier part is clamped into the sample holder of a microtome and microtomed.
- Thin cuts are made on the back of the knife of the microtome knife or on the back of disposable blades, which are transferred to a water bath with warm water for manual stretching using a brush and tweezers.
- the stretched thin sections are opened a standard glass slide was added.
- the slide must now contain the same information relating to the tissue on its labeling field as that which is recorded in the labeling of the tissue cassette serving as a carrier.
- the slides are labeled by hand as soon as the thin sections have been created. This means that the patient sample information present on the cassettes must be transferred to one or more slides by handwriting. It is now easy to see that this method favors the risk of transmission errors and therefore offers a low level of security against confusion and error. In addition, the handwritten information must be read and processed by other people at a later date.
- a method and devices of the type mentioned at the outset with manual assignment are also known, in which at the beginning of the sample preparation process at the time of labeling the tissue cassette serving as a carrier, one or more specimen slides are already pre-labeled with the same information. This reduces the risk of confusion, especially if the labeling is automated with a coupled cassette and slide printing system.
- a disadvantage of this method is that the pre-labeled slides cannot accompany the patient sample with the tissue cassette as an interconnected unit in the subsequent steps. This means that after microtoming a tissue sample, the matching pre-labeled slides have to be selected and identified by manual comparison of the labeling information.
- Another disadvantage is that the number of slides required for the respective tissue sample cannot be predetermined at the time of the inscription, since in addition to the prescription by the doctor, this is also the responsibility of the operator performing the microtoming. Maintaining a system that ensures that the specimen slides are assigned to the patient's tissue sample and that the previously labeled specimen slides can be found is difficult to carry out in practice, since the specimens have to be rearranged several times in the individual preparation steps. Cumbersome intermediate storage of the slides and reading comparisons are therefore necessary in order to make an assignment again.
- the invention is therefore based on the object of making available a safer and more efficient labeling method for specimen slides and devices which defuse the described assignment problem in histological technology, in particular in the case of manual assignment, in a simple manner.
- the object is achieved with respect to a method of the type mentioned at the outset in that the identification information belonging to the support is automatically recorded during its arrangement in the microtome and an identification assigned to it is automatically transmitted to at least one slide and that only this slide provided with the identification is assigned to the time at which a microtomed tissue sample has to be placed on a slide is presented at the microtome workplace for the application of a microtomed tissue sample.
- the object is achieved in that it has a detection device for detecting the labeling information while the carrier with a non-microtomized tissue sample is arranged in the holding device of a microtome, and a marking device for equipping a slide with a Labeling, a transmission device for transmitting information between the detection device and the labeling device and an output device installed at the work station of the microtome for the removal of object carriers provided with a label for applying the microtomed tissue sample.
- tissue samples are also those tissue samples, the first of which Thin sections have already been cut.
- the automated detection makes it possible to detect it when the carrier with the tissue sample is in the microtome, which is at least not reliable in a detection by the human eye because of the greatest illegibility of a label due to the narrow space conditions is possible.
- the invention avoids detection outside the microtome, since there is no guarantee that the detected tissue sample will also be clamped. Errors in the labeling of the slides are excluded by the automatic recording of the labeling information during the clamping of the slides and by the automatic transmission and labeling.
- the transmission can be electrical, optical, by infrared, radio or in some other way.
- Reliability is further achieved in that the specialist always has only one slide available which corresponds to the microtomized tissue sample with regard to its indication of origin, since at the moment when the specialist has to place the microtomed tissue sample on a slide, only the slide is included the correct labeling is presented. So there is no human mapping work. With the elimination of the assignment work, there is also no possibility that such an error can occur. Even if the specialist interrupts the microtoming of a sample in order to process another sample in between, there can be no assignment problems, since only slides are always presented that carry a label that is assigned to the label information of the tissue sample located in the microtome. Labeling information and labeling can be connected materially or electronically to the carrier or the slide.
- the device according to the invention provides the facilities required for carrying out the method according to the invention. These facilities ensure that the creation and presentation of the correctly labeled slides - and only this! - can be done automatically and "just in ti e" as well as at the location of the need and in the desired quantity.
- the method and device relate not only to the initially mentioned way of producing microtomized tissue samples, since the problem is independent of how the tissue sample is treated and cut. It can therefore be a microtome in which the knife is moved or in which the knife is stationary and the sample is moved. One of these elements can be moved on a carriage or a rotating disc and can be manually or mechanically driven.
- a laser beam or another method for producing tissue sections can also be used instead of the knife. It can be not only human, but also animal or vegetable tissue sections.
- the object is achieved in that this device and the information carrier and a data carrier assigned to the carrier are designed for the creation of a labeling information which, in addition to the origin assignment of the tissue sample, an information distribution key and information contain, which serve to provide individual information for the labeling of several slides with microtomized tissue samples, which originate from the same not yet microtomized tissue sample.
- This device prepares the labeling of the specimen slides by recording the required information as identification information in such a way that it is mechanically or electronically linked to the tissue sample carrier in such a way that the above-mentioned method can be carried out by means of the above-mentioned device, this device for preparing the marking relates to use cases in which the marking information Allocation information includes individual information equipment for individual slides with thin sections from the same tissue sample. In this way, not only is the correct assignment of the labeling of slides for microtomized tissue samples to the corresponding not yet microtomized tissue samples achieved, it is also ensured that a desired number of tissue sections on slides is created with the desired additional information.
- the method according to the invention is expediently developed in such a way that each time a microtomed tissue sample is produced, the labeling information is recorded and a slide with a label is produced and presented. This ensures that a slide is also presented for each microtomized tissue sample. It can of course also be provided that the slide is only produced if the specialist operating the microtome considers the microtomized tissue sample to be usable and releases the production of the labeled slide.
- the identification of the at least one specimen slide identically contains the identification information that is assigned to the non-microtomized tissue sample.
- the labeling information contains additional information in addition to the origin of the tissue sample. Such information can relate to the pretreatment of the tissue sample, the date or location of the removal or the organ of the removal. Further information is conceivable, examples of this are still given.
- the labeling of the slides is loaded with an information distribution key in addition to the origin assignment with additional information indicating the individual microtomized tissue samples from the same non-microtomized tissue sample individualize the property contracts.
- additional information indicating the individual microtomized tissue samples from the same non-microtomized tissue sample individualize the property contracts.
- further processing and evaluation can take place on the basis of the labeling and it is not necessary to add such information separately to the object carriers.
- the information processing key and the further information are expediently contained in the labeling information and are therefore physically or electronically connected to the carrier and thus to the non-microtomized tissue sample.
- the detection device can be designed such that it detects the identification information after the carrier has been positioned in the microtome and that it causes the identification of at least one slide.
- the detection device can also be designed in such a way that when a microtomed tissue sample is produced, the identification information is recorded and a command is sent to the identification device to carry out the identification of a slide. It is also possible to continuously record the labeling information and carry out the labeling of slides if required, for example by pressing a button.
- Identification information and identification can of course be designed in a variety of ways, it can be a human-readable label or a machine-evaluable label, such as a bar code, but also a magnetic or electronic storage medium of any kind. It can be provided that the labeling information or labeling is on a separate data carrier, which is a carrier or a Slide can be assigned by means of an identification code. Then of course it must be ensured that only the correct assignment is permitted. This solution is useful when more extensive data is to be assigned, which is more the case with the labeling information. However, it is often sufficient and also a simple design if the identification information is loaded on an information carrier that is physically connected to the carrier.
- the dispenser In order to prevent a slide from the previously processed tissue sample from remaining in the dispenser and thereby making an assignment error, it is expedient if the dispenser is designed in such a way that it stops the presentation of a slide provided with a label when a new slide in the Microtome is placed.
- the output device can discard or withdraw the remaining slide in order to describe it with new information.
- the function of the device goes beyond the mere copying of an assignment of origin, then it is expedient if it has a control for carrying out the labeling of the specimen slides. If such a control is available, it is also expedient if the device has a command input for determining the type and / or the number of identifications. This command input can be a manual command input or a command input can be carried out using the identification information. An external command input by means of a data line connected to a computer or an command input by means of a data carrier is also conceivable.
- the device ideally the marking device, should have a depot for still unlabeled slides, which is large enough to always be able to produce a sufficiently large number of labeled slides without the need for constant reloading.
- the controller can be designed such that the number of specimen slides to be provided can be specified. This corresponds to the fact that the doctor usually specifies how many microtomized tissue samples are required on slides.
- the control should be designed in such a way that the number of specimen slides to be labeled can be increased manually.
- control can receive its information in various ways.
- An expedient embodiment with the least possibility of error provides that the control is designed in such a way that it takes the information for performing the number and / or type of identification of an item of information containing this information.
- a command input and / or a control are present in the device, it is expedient if it also has a display device for displaying information and / or work steps. This informs the microtoming specialist about how many thin sections are made, how and with what information. This enables additional control and additional entries.
- a practical embodiment of the device provides that the detection device, the carrier and the holding device are designed and arranged in such a way that the detection device can read the identification information from a reading field of the carrier.
- the carrier and the holding device are designed and matched to one another such that the clamping jaws of a holding device designed as a clamping device are located outside the reading field of a clamped carrier. This can be achieved through an appropriate arrangement and staltung of the detection device or by a modification of the jaws compared to the previous clamping devices can be achieved, the goal being to have enough space for a detection device available at the reading field.
- the term “reading field” is of course to be understood in such a way that not only optical but also magnetically or electronically stored information can be read.
- the device for preparing a marking of object carriers by creating marking information that is assigned to the carriers can also be designed in a wide variety of ways. So it is possible that the information carriers are designed in a variety of ways, and also that the facilities for creating the labeling information are designed differently accordingly. For example, it can be provided that the device for generating the identification information is designed such that it loads the latter on a separate data carrier and provides this or a specific data content of a data carrier and the information carrier of the tissue sample carrier with an identification code for mutual association.
- This configuration is particularly useful when a great deal of data has to be assigned to the tissue samples in non-microtomized and / or microtomed form and the carrier is therefore not sufficient to attach a correspondingly large storage medium to it or if the processing of a sample still to be carried out does not allow such a storage medium.
- An alternative embodiment provides that the device and the information carrier are designed such that the latter can be loaded with the entire identification information.
- the slides can receive various pieces of information.
- the slides receive different processing instructions for the microtomized tissue samples, or that individual evaluation instructions for the microtomized tissue samples are contained in the information equipment of the slides.
- the aforementioned device can also be used together with the method and the device for carrying out the method for extensive automation.
- the aforementioned information equipment is designed as machine control instructions that can be recorded and implemented by machine.
- a device for processing microtomized tissue samples arranged on specimen slides which has a device for detecting identifications of specimen slides and a device control which is designed such that it implements the device control instructions which contain the identifications of the specimen slides.
- Such automation which is based on the previous measures according to the invention, serves to alleviate the assignment problem, in this case with regard to further processing.
- Fig. 1 shows an embodiment of an apparatus for performing the
- FIG. 2a with an embodiment of a carrier designed as a cassette
- 3b a holding device designed for the arrangement of a detection device
- Fig. 4 shows an embodiment of an apparatus for creating a
- FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of an inventive device for performing the method according to the invention.
- a microtome 6 is shown, in the holding device 8 of which a carrier 4, which carries a tissue sample 5 which has not yet been microtomed, is clamped on a movable carriage.
- This tissue sample 5, which has not yet been microtomed is displaced in the direction of a double arrow 21 in order to produce thin sections by means of the knife 20 of the microtome 6.
- the carriage guidance and infeed to achieve the section thickness are essential functions of the microtome 6.
- These thin sections are the microtomized tissue samples which are deposited on the tray 22 and are removed in the manner described at the beginning in order to feed them to a water bath 23.
- the warm water bath 23 smoothes the microtomized tissue samples, ie the thin sections, and can then be applied to a slide 2.
- the invention solves the problem that the identification 1 of the specimen slides 2 of the identification information 3 of the not yet microtomized tissue sample 5 is assigned safely and efficiently.
- a detection device 7 is arranged on the microtome 6, which detects the labeling information 3 of the carrier 4 and transmits it to a labeling device 9 for slide 2 by means of a transmission device 10.
- this labeling device 9 creates a label 1 for a specimen slide 2, which can then be removed from the output device 11 in order to receive the microtomed tissue sample from the water bath 23. This is the assignment the label 1 on the slide 2 to the labeling information 3 of the carrier 4 always guaranteed.
- the marking device 9 is preferably designed such that it withdraws unused marked specimen slides 2 before processing a new, not yet microtomized tissue sample 5.
- the exemplary embodiment has a transmission device 10, which is designed, for example, as an infrared transmission.
- a corresponding receiver is arranged on the marking device 9.
- the reference symbol 13 ′ indicates that the identified identification information 3 can also include a command input 13 ′, which is likewise transmitted with the transmission device 10.
- Such a command input serves individualized identifications 1 of object carriers 2 in the manner as has already been described above.
- a manual command input 13 or an external command input 13 ′′ is of course also conceivable, the latter can be connected to a computer, for example. The operator can be informed about the number and type of identification drawings 1 or more by means of a display device 14.
- the labeling device 9 is housed here in a housing that also contains a controller 12, which is used, for example, to process commands or to convert labeling information 3 into individualized labels 1 of object carriers 2. In this regard, too, reference is made to the above description. Furthermore, the labeling device 9 has a depot 16 into which Unlabeled slides 2 can be filled so that there is sufficient stock.
- FIG. 2a shows an exemplary embodiment of a carrier 4 designed as a cassette 24 with identification information 3 which is applied to an information carrier 15 designed as a reading field 15 '.
- an information carrier 15 designed as a reading field 15 '.
- other configurations of an information carrier 15 are also conceivable, such as electromagnetic strips, an electronic memory or a bar code, as shown in FIG. 2c.
- the non-microtomized tissue samples 5 are placed in the cassettes 24 and then closed with a cover 25 shown in FIG. 2b. The tissue samples are then treated as described at the beginning. Finally, the non-microtomized tissue sample 5 is impregnated with paraffin and connected as a paraffin block to the cassette 24, so that it serves as a carrier 4 for the tissue sample 5 which has not yet been microtomed.
- FIG. 3a shows a holding device 8 of a known type which places the carrier 4 just described, that is to say the cassette 24, connected to the tissue sample 5 which has not yet been microtomed on the microtome 6 for producing the thin sections.
- the holding device 8 of known type clamping jaws 17 are provided, which hold the cassette 24 on the reading field 15 'and on the opposite side. This makes it difficult to accommodate a detection device 7.
- This can be remedied, for example, by designing the holding device 8 as shown in FIG. 3b, that is to say that the clamping jaws 17 hold the cassette 24 on the long sides.
- FIG. 3b shows the holding device 8 as shown in FIG. 3b, that is to say that the clamping jaws 17 hold the cassette 24 on the long sides.
- Fig. 4 shows an exemplary embodiment of a device 18 for preparing a label 1 of object carrier 2. This preparation is carried out by the fact that carrier 4 can be provided with labeling information 3, which then by the controller 12 of the labeling device 9 in corresponding labels 1 of Object 2 can be implemented, as already detailed has been described.
- the device 18 therefore consists of a device 19 for generating identification information 3 and of the carriers 4 with information carriers 15, 15 '.
- the device 19 for creating such identification information 3 has an input 27, which is designed, for example, as a keyboard, and a display 28, for example a screen. All data can therefore be entered in order to load the information carrier 15 of a carrier 4 with the corresponding identification information 3.
- this process can of course also be carried out by providing a data carrier holder 30 into which a data carrier, for example a floppy disk, is inserted, which contains the corresponding identification information 3.
- the device 19 then creates the identification information 3 on the carrier 4 in accordance with this data.
- a data line to a computer would also be conceivable for generating the identification information 3.
- a depot 26 for carriers 4 without labeling information 3 is provided.
- the figures show, of course, only a small part of the possibilities for designing the device according to the invention. It is limited to use on a commercially available microtome 6. This can also be designed differently, the marking device 9 can also be attached to the latter, the latter can be designed differently, or the microtomized tissue samples can be applied automatically to the specimen slides 2 be provided.
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